On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Sebastian
Sylvan
I think it's morally right to run as user by default. Yes, the windows culture has some legacy that may, on occasion, make it slightly harder to use "well behaved" programs, but it's fairly minor these days.
I strongly agree. Presently, on Windows 7, I have to right-click and "Run As Administrator" and then approve the process via UAC to get anything done under the default --global setting, in much the same way I would have to launch a root terminal and provide my password within GNOME (a la gksu) or other *nix environments (Windows doesn't have anything like sudo, as far as I know). Since it works essentially the same as *nix does, as of Windows 7, I see no reason for a different default. Jeff Wheeler